Welcome to my book blog created 2012 of books I read and review. I exhausted space on my other blog, Pat's Posts. Better to separate my readings from my writings. Eventually I will display my entire library here. I am in the process of moving some reviews from the other blog here as well. The design of this blog has been a work in progress, slowly, bear with me...

MY OTHER BLOG

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Thursday, June 2, 2016

The Survivor by Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills

Published in 2015, this was the last Mitch Rapp book
that author, late Vince Flynn had underway before his untimely death in
2013. Kyle Mills continued it to produce another Rapp
thriller. Kyle melded this with
characters from his own thriller novels apparently. It was just as good
as the Flynn created Rapp series bringing the Afghanis and that rugged country
along with Pakistanis and nuclear powers head to head. In this
thriller packed with action and intrigue, Rapp, CIA operative will face an old long time nemesis, lose his mentor Stan Hurley and battle cyber threats while fighting on
the ground in the same rough physical pace this character portrays best.
Irene Kennedy may face the end of her career in humiliating
circumstances.

Some of my favorite passages are as follows. Page 69, "Rapp
was the pinnacle. Most people had become resigned to the fact that he was
unkillable. Gould was one of the few people on the planet who had tried
and lived to tell the tale and even he had to admit that he'd been lucky.
Twice.....Rapp wasn't just unkillable, he was in many ways
unstoppable..." Page 264, reveals a chilling consideration,
likely more truth than fiction, "It was shortly thereafter that he
had joined with Mitch Rapp and the Americans. Not because he
believed in their futile and unwelcome efforts to turn Afghanistan into a
modern democracy. No, he'd simply seen them as a powerful ally in his
quest to kill the men responsible for taking away his life.....The Americans
were a confused and naive people, but generally the champions of
peace and stability. Occupations were not in their nature. Unlike
the fanatics who had converged on his country, the Americans could be counted
on to leave."

Page 275 rings true especially with
this current inept cowardly federal regime aka administration. " The problem was that
unimaginably stupid had become a job requirement in Washington.

It's a 5 ***** read and hopefully Kyle Mills will continue this Rapp series, a character ala Jack Bauer of the former TV show 24, something of a marvel in this time of political correctness and wussiness. .

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Open Book

Your books

I found this scrap clipping clearing out paperwork, there is no author, I wished I'd written it but I didn't and I don't know who did: "Your books are your autobiography; they map your history, reflect your tastes, hold emotional moments between covers."

My rating system 5 *****

I am using a 5 star rating with 5 being excellent, the best read and 1 marginal....some books may not merit 1 star. Life is too short to waste on uninteresting books...or maybe my reading time is too short, or maybe I'm just too short. But there it is 1 low to 5 high.

I read books

“I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has

Book Drunkard Quote LM Reynolds

When you finish a book

When you finish a book

You are the books you read

You are the books you read

My other blog

This is the link to my other blog, where there are reviews of books I have read prior to 2012 as well as other writings http://patonlinenewtime.blogspot.com/

About Me

This is to record books I have read, sometimes my comments may be useful to others. However I set this blog up for tracking my own reads, and a way to not repurchase something I have already read. That purpose does not always work. I do not belong to any book clubs because I prefer to choose my own books to read and the book clubs I tried did not work out for me. I wanted discussion, about writing, authors, the concepts, etc instead all I heard was, "I liked it" or "I didn't like it" no depth of conversation, so I gave up. I have been a life long reader. I will say in retirement, I do not spend enough time just reading, as I imagined I would. My days are busy and so it is unusual for me to carve out time in the day to read, mostly I read for about half an hour prior to bed. Life is different than I thought it would be. .